Unemployed Black Woman Pretends to Be White, Job Prospects Dramatically Increase

This was originally posted in 2012 here: http://www.techyville.com/2012/11/news/unemployed-black-woma...

and posted on HN (got to 99 points) here, about a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6034800

and again before that (though it went dead, with 57 points): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5528772

and worst of all: It's just as messed up and unfair now as it was then!

The other variable here was the age of the monster.com account. It might not be that she was white that interested employers, but that she was new to the search results.